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CORA DUBOIS (methodology (collected ethnographic data , 8 lengthy…
CORA DUBOIS
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methodology
collected ethnographic data , 8 lengthy biographies , details of dreams of children's drawings .
details of dreams of children's drawings , number of projective tests
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each specialists worked blindly i.e without any knowledge of the ethnographic data and without consulting each other. result = correspondence.
eg : all noted shallowness of alorese emotional life , insecurity , apathy and suspiciousness.
obtained by pooling individual responses to tests and averaging them , result = psychogram - most prevalent personality features of alor
cora du called it modal personality , directly derived from testing - true reflection of personality features of a culture eg: Brahmans family member
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urban society concept of modal personality varies = Brahmin not entertain meat eating due to cultural background but same person ready to ear meat in party due to presence of sub-cultures .thus variations take place within same cultures.
within a particular culture there may be an honest worker , corrupt minister , coolie at railway station - all these will have diff personalities
conformist societies also individualistic personality exists.eg - sandhya vandanam is practiced but less than 10% but namaz 60% of them practice. thus model refers to traits most common among a group but not all traits of the typical personality which culture shapes
evaluation
many sued this technique eg : Oscar Lewis in POW of Mexico .Indian context - psychology of Marshall race i.e rajput/kshatriya.